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WINDOW SHADE.

Patented Sept. 20,1881.

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UNITED STATES HANNAH B. S. NORMAN, ()F ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

WINDOW-SHADE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 247,394, dated September 20, 1881. V

I Application filed August s, 1581. (N0 model.)

To all whom it man concern Be it known that I, HANNAH B. S. NOR- MAN, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvementin WVindow-Shades, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure] is a side elevation of a portion ot'a window-shade having the improvement; Fig. 2, an edge elevation of the same; and Fig. 3, an edge elevation, showing the decoration applied to but one side of the shade.

The same letters denote the same parts.

The present invention relates to an improved mode of decorating window-shades.

Hitherto it has been customary, in ornamenting a window-shade, to print or paint the figures or designs composing the ornament directly onto the shade. The shade, however, by reason of the color usually thereupon, is opaque, and the ornamentation is visible upon that side only of the shade from which the light comes. Another mode of ornamenting is to print the figure onto translucent cloth, upon one side of the cloth, and then insert the printed cloth into the shade, the latter being divided to admit the ornamented cloth, which is attached to the shade by lapping its edges upon the abutting edges of the shade and then stitching the lapped edges. This last-named mode, while it renders the ornamented portion of the shade translucent, is objectionable. The shade is materially weakened. In raising and lowering the shade the seams which connect the inserted piece with the upper and lower parts of the shade are strained and they are apt to part. The stitches of the seams in question are also rendered noticeably visible when the light shines through the shade, marring the efi'ect of the ornament. Such'a shade, also,

when viewed from the reverse side to that which is ornamented, and lighted only by refleoted light, as in the evening, looking from the room toward the shade, does not appear ornamented, the inserted cloth appearing simply in its natural color, and the outlinesof the design not being visible.

To obviate the various objections named, and to provide means by which a windowshade can be readily ornamented upon one or both sides, at the same time rendering the shade translucent, but without in the least degree weakening the shade, is the aim ofthe present invention, which consists as follows:

The shade is made from a continuous piece of translucent cloth or paper. The design which it is intended to use is then printed or painted upon translucent paper, cloth,- or other thin flexible translucent material. This paper is then gummed to the shade, and at the point or points where it is desired to apply the ornamentation. I

If both sides of the shade are to be ornamented, the ornamented paper is applied to both sides of the shade, taking care that the designs respectively upon the two sides of the shade register or come exactly opposite each other, as in the annexed drawings, where A represents the continuous web of translucent cloth or paper constituting the body of the shade, and extending the length of the shade.

The design or ornament (shown as the dado B) is printed or produced upon thin translucent paper C, paper being for this purpose used in preference to any other material. The ornamented paper 0 is then gummed to the web A.

In Fig. 2 the paper is shown applied to both sides of the web. In Fig. 3 it is applied to but one side.

It will be noticed the web A is not divided at any point, the paper 0 serving rather to strengthen it. No stitches are needed in attaching the paper 0, and the shade will appear ornamented, when the paper 0 is applied on both sides of the shade, in all positionsfrom the street, from within the room, and

also when the light is not shining through the shade.

The web around the ornamented portion, as at a a, may be colored, to render the shade 5 at those points opaque, if desired.

The portions 0 c of the shade--that is, all of the paper 0 which is not occupied by the design B-is translucent.

I claim I0 A window-shade the body of which is a continuous web, A, and having mounted there upon and upon one or both sides of the web, as desired, the translucent ornamented paper 0, said Web at the point or points where the ornamented paper is attached being translu 15 cent, substantially as described.

HANNAH B. S. NORMAN. Witnesses:

O. D. MOODY, JAMES NORMAN. 

